Capricious Bubbles

  With great sadness I must inform you that Shinyung died of breast cancer on August 10th. The loss is devastatingly deep, however family an...

 Almost seventeen years ago, my sister told me to never contact her again. In those seventeen years, so much has happened (or not happened)....

Yesterday, I learned that my third line of treatment has failed. It only worked for about 3-4 months, and during the last two months, the ca...

For most of my life, I have carried my mother’s unhappiness, sloshing in an aged brown vat atop a rolled towel on my head, the way old ladie...

For decades, I pined for more time to write, through years of law school and then a decade of working in law firms, later through the early ...

[Spoiler Alert] Years ago, my Korean-American friend Bonnie told me she hates reading stories about Korean-Americans. "They're so d...

Jay Caspian Kang’s recent New York Times Magazine feature on Steven Yeun is not really a story about Steven Yeun. It is an exploration — th...

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests, Asian-American writers and activists have flocked to urge fellow Asian-Americans to speak u...